nfs/localio: do not issue misaligned DIO out-of-order

From https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/aQHASIumLJyOoZGH@infradead.org/

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 12:20:40AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 12:18:30PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > LOCALIO's misaligned DIO will issue head/tail followed by O_DIRECT
> > middle (via AIO completion of that aligned middle). So out of order
> > relative to file offset.
>
> That's in general a really bad idea.  It will obviously work, but
> both on SSDs and out of place write file systems it is a sure way
> to increase your garbage collection overhead a lot down the line.

Fix this by never issuing misaligned DIO out of order. This fix means
the DIO-aligned middle will only use AIO completion if there is no
misaligned end segment. Otherwise, all 3 segments of a misaligned DIO
will be issued without AIO completion to ensure file offset increases
properly for all partial READ or WRITE situations.

Factoring out nfs_local_iter_setup() helps standardize repetitive
nfs_local_iters_setup_dio() code and is inspired by cleanup work that
Chuck Lever did on the NFSD Direct code.

Fixes: c817248fc8 ("nfs/localio: add proper O_DIRECT support for READ and WRITE")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
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Mike Snitzer 2025-11-05 22:03:04 -05:00 • committed by Anna Schumaker
commit 6a218b9c31